Real-time automatic target identification system for air-to-ground targeting

Mike Nicholas; Jonathan Wood; Jo Nothard

doi:10.1117/12.634028

21 October 2005 Real-time automatic target identification system for air-to-ground targeting

Mike Nicholas, Jonathan Wood, Jo Nothard

Proceedings Volume 5988, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing; 59880H (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.634028
Event: European Symposium on Optics and Photonics for Defence and Security, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

Future targeting systems, for manned or unmanned combat aircraft, aim to provide increased mission success and platform survivability by successfully detecting and identifying even difficult targets at very long ranges. One of the key enabling technologies for such systems is robust automatic target identification (ATI), operating on high resolution electro-optic sensor imagery. QinetiQ have developed a real time ATI processor which will be demonstrated with infrared imagery from the Wescam MX15 in airborne trials in summer 2005. This paper describes some of the novel ATI algorithms, the challenges overcome to port the ATI from the laboratory onto a real time system and offers an assessment of likely airborne performance based on analysis of synthetic image sequences.

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Mike Nicholas, Jonathan Wood, and Jo Nothard "Real-time automatic target identification system for air-to-ground targeting", Proc. SPIE 5988, Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, 59880H (21 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.634028

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